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One of these days when you have finished your books, I should like to write one with you; my impressions of the desert as I rode from oasis to oasis, seeking Tahar " "Who was he?" "He was the man who had the eagles. Haven't I told you already how ?" "Yes, yes, Asher, but tell me did you meet Tahar, and did you see gazelles hunted?" "Yes, and larger deer.
"That would end my trouble, but she cannot reach him, and there is no one she can trust among those who cook or serve food in the men's part of our house." Sanda was struck with horror, but Ourïeda could not at first even understand why she was shocked. "If a viper were ready to strike you or one you loved, would you think harm of killing it?" she asked. "Tahar is venomous as a viper.
Tell him, Min Ali Tahar wishes him all health and happiness; that he is a Tibboo, who can command a thousand spears, and fears no man. Is he liberal? Is his heart large? Gulba kablr, does he give presents to his people?" "Very much so indeed," replied Major Denham; "some of his people think him too generous." "By the head of my father!"
The entire plot of Manöel's love drama, from the first grim scene of stunning the prospective bridegroom on the way to his unwilling bride, to the escape from the douar in the quiet hours when Tahar was supposed to be left alone with the "Agha's Rose," on to the hiding at Djazerta, and stealing away in disguise with a caravan while the hunt took another direction, all had played itself out according to his plan.
Major Denham rode nearly the whole of this day with Min Ali Tahar, the Gundowy Tibbo sheik, who was accompanying them to Bornou; he had some little difference with the sheik, of whom he was perfectly independent, and Boo Khaloom, ever politic, undertook to make up the misunderstanding; thereby not only showing his influence, but securing in a manner the future friendship of Tahar, whose district was always considered the most dangerous part of the Tibboo country, on the road to Mourzouk.
As they journeyed Tahar, their dragoman he had applied for the post, and got it by the desire of mademoiselle, who admired his lithe bearing and gorgeous aplomb Tahar suddenly pulled up his mule, pointed with his brown hand to the horizon, and said in French: "'There is mirage! Look! There is the mirage of the great desert!
"Is it long since you parted?" Sanda asked quickly, to put away that persistent thought of trouble. "We parted more than once, because when our two mothers died, one after another, of the same sickness typhoid fever Manöel was sent away to school. He's nine years older than I am twenty-five now; a little more than three years younger than Tahar.
"Left two days ago, and I have come from Ain Mahdy, nearly from Tunis, in search of him! We have passed each other in the desert," he said, looking round the great plain, made of space, solitude, and sun. It had become odious to him suddenly, and he seemed to forget everything. As if taking pity on him, Monsieur Béclère asked him to stay with him until Tahar returned.
He would organize some plan to steal me from home, if there were no chance of winning my father's consent, and he was sure it could be done with great bribes for many people, and relays of Maharis and horses to get us through the dune-country. I sent word that I would wait for him three years, all the years of my life! But that was before I knew my father meant me to marry Tahar.
His daughter was still safe under his own roof, and it was not an unexpected blow to him that she should have wished to escape from Tahar. He knew in his heart that Ourïeda was more to blame than Sanda, and seeing shame on the young, pale face of the Roumia he had no fear of anything George DeLisle's daughter might report to her father.
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